St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-30
COLD WATER COUNCILS.

The PrOhibiti0mists Nominate q
Complete City Ticket.-No Confer
ence in Theirs.
The Prohibition convention met at Har-
rson's hall at O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
S. w. Searle was made chairman and J.
w. Lansing secretary. After considerable
delay a committee on credentials reported
the First. Third. Twelfth and Thirteenth
wards unrepresented. There were vacan-
cies in every delegation. scarcely half the
delegates elected being present
G. T. Getty. DIR. Scott and Rev. J. NJ.
Bull were made a committee Oh resolutions.
The delegates present were empowered
to cast the vote of the full delegations of
their wards.
E. Barton was unanimously nominated
for justice Of the peace OF the East side.
For the North district George S. Grimes
was nominated, and George F. Getty was
made the candidate in the South district
DIR. Denton moved the appointment of a
conference committee, numbering one from
each ward represented in convention, to Sc
lect candidates for park commissioners and
school directors. He advocated alliance with
the Union Labor party. Rev. j. B. Pink
ham opposed what he feared might be an
entangling alliance. and he wanted Prohi-
bitionists to stick to their own coIors He
wanted the convention to nominate park
commissioners.
AT this juncture a young gentleman from
the university poured forth a stream of
sophomore eloquence against conference
committees. His maiden effort received the
greatest applause of the debate.
A Sixth ward delegate thought the con-
ference plan the best for keeping the school
Of 1r
the Union Labor party.
The discussion of the conference motion
was waived in order to listen to the report
of the committee on resolutions. The report
consisted OF preamble and three resOu-
tons which merely reiterated the we'll
known principle of the Prohibitionists. A
minority report, consisting of two addi-
tiOnal resolutions indorfing the labor move
ment and Mr.. PoWderiy's views ON temper
ance, was also submitted
The fourth resolution as read was 1--WE
are in sympathy with the cause of labor in
its demands for fewer hours Of labor, for
exemption from convict competition and
for arbitration of differences between CAPT.
tai and labor, and believe in all Just laws
tending to benefit the laboring classes"
Dr. Scott would not wait for a motion to
adopt before expressing his disapproval Of
tLC ICSOlutlOIl, UCCduSc SceLueu u SCQono
to elect one man to small Office He had
nothing at ali against the sentiment of the
resolution, but did not consider this the
place or the time to consider it. eve talk
of being an independent party and then
make this big bid for votes from another.n
A motion to lay on the table was an
nounced lost by vote of % to %. 1t was
claimed that not half the fifty people in the
hall were delegates, but the convention did
not reconsider the vote. An amendment
to strike out the words ''fewer hours of
labor from the resolution. was passed.
Rev. J. NJ. Bull feared there would be
reading between the lines of the resolution
and it might be construed into an overture
to the Union Labor party. The one pur-
pose of the new party is to forward the
prohibitions; he feared the action was not
wise, and moved to lay the fourth resolu.
ton on the table. A wrangle on parIia-
mentary practice followed, and the resolu-
ton was finally tabled.
The fifth resolution, '''that we stand with